"You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting..." - Quote by Princess Diana

“Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint.”

“Everybody needs hugs.”

“When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.”

“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”

“Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same way we do. Every person has the same right as we do to be happy and not to suffer. So let's take care of others wholeheartedly, of both our friends and our enemies. This is the basis for true compassion.”

“The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.”

“The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.”

“More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.”

“It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together”